Disease and Characteristics

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has many differant characteristics too it. Some being minor and some major, but major characteristics are not as possiable.
Characteristics:
  • Mental retardation
  • Low birth rate
  • Prematurity
  • Facial features
  • Delays in development
  • Behavorial abnormalities
  • Adolesents
  • Small eyes
  • Thin upper lip
  • Short upturned nose
  • Smooth skin surface between the upper lip and nose
  • Short attention span
  • Hyperativity
  • Anxiety
  • Slow physical growth
  • Vision difficulties
  • Hearing problems
  • Small head
  • Small brain size known as microcephaly

Some major (Possiable)
  • Cleft palate
  • Heart Defects
  • Strabismus
  • Hearing loss
  • Defects in spine and joints
  • Deformities of joints
  • Poor cordination
  • Sleep problems
  • Delayed development
  • Learning disorders
  • Poor impulse control
  • Extreme nervousness